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A compleat view of episcopacy, as exhibited from the fathers of the Christian church, until the close of the second century : containing an impartial account of them, of their writings, and of what they say concerning bishops and presbyters; with observations, and remarks, tending to shew, that they esteemed these one and the same order of ecclesiastical officers. In answer to those, who have represented it as a certain fact, universally handed down, even from the apostles days, that governing and ordaining authority was exercised by such bishops only, as were of an order superior to presbyters

by: Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL

Publication date: 1771

Topics: Episcopacy, Episcopacy, Fathers of the church

Publisher: Boston : Printed by Daniel Kneeland ... for Thomas Leverett ...

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 799.5M

Signatures: [A]B-3P(3P4 verso blank)

Error in paging: p. 272 misnumbered 722

Errata on p. 474

Table of contents at end

Advertised in the Boston news-letter, May 30, 1734, as preparing for the press, but not printed until 1771

Two states of p. 374 noted. One has the catchword 'these,' the other, the catchword 'Phillippus.'

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams Library copy: minor annotations

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

Rare Books Collection copy has bookplate: Miss Elizabeth Belknap, June 7, 1859

Rare Books Collection copy inscribed on t.p.: "Given by Mr. Sam Eliot to Jeremy Belknap 1771."

ESTC

Evans

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Also available on microfiche

Also available on microfiche

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894